A phenomenal course! Timely and Relevant!
A huge shoutout to the course directors @MN_GIMD@MuzaffarAkbar Gary Chmiewleski and Regan Taylor for leading this fantastic initiative bringing together the latest advances, insights, and expertise in foregut.
And that’s a wrap on @AdventHealthCFL Updates in Foregut 2026!
193 in-person attendees.
Physicians, APPs, surgeons, gastroenterologists, advanced endoscopists, motility experts and a room full of people willing to spend their Saturday thinking together about how we can better care for patients with foregut disease.
That was what I loved most about today. Not simply the education, but the thoughtful questions, different perspectives, debates, and exchange of ideas.
Complex foregut disease rarely fits neatly into one specialty or one algorithm, and today was a reminder of what happens when we bring those perspectives together.
A huge thank you to our outstanding speakers, moderators, attendees, industry partners @MadrigalPharma@Celltrioninc@Olympus_Corp@CastleBio to name a few & the incredible Advent planning team!
Proud of what we are building at @AdventHealthCFL and grateful to everyone who continues to support this initiative.
The conference made it to closing remarks. The shoes did not.
Thrilled to finally certify and submit my GI fellowship application!💩
Truly grateful for my incredible mentors and colleagues who guided and helped me through this journey.
Looking forward to application season! 🚀 #GITwitter#FellowshipMatch#GIFellowship#MedTwitter
If you're heading to #ACG2026, consider arriving a day early for the Practice Management Summit on October 9.
Practical sessions on running a GI practice — private practice or employed, early career or late. Great speakers, real networking time, and strategies you can actually use when you get home.
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Two years in the making, this chapter reflects something we have cared about from the very beginning of our fellowship: supporting education across the division, including for our APP colleagues.
From welcoming APPs into our didactics to having our fellows speak at dedicated APP learning sessions, our fellows have consistently demonstrated that education is a responsibility shared by the entire healthcare team. Seeing that commitment embraced by our fellows has been one of the most gratifying parts of building this program.
And how fitting that this chapter comes full circle just as @AMohammedMD graduates from advanced fellowship & joins us as an attending and colleague.
Watching that evolution - from fellow, to co-author, to colleague - makes this project even more special.
A sincere thank you to the editors @SamAtallahMD for the opportunity to contribute a chapter on “Endoscopic Therapies for Surgical Conditions”.
It is both an honor and a privilege to be included in this outstanding educational resource.
Algorithms are helpful.
Patients don’t always follow them.
The best foregut care often starts where the algorithm ends, with thoughtful discussion, multidisciplinary collaboration, and clinical judgment.
Looking forward to @AdventHealthCFL
“Updates in Foregut 2026” as we tackle some of the most challenging cases in foregut disease.
📍 JW Marriott Orlando
📅 August 15
Fellows & Residents Free Registration
#Gastroenterology #MedEd #Foregut
We are beyond excited to welcome @burkegastrodoc to @AdventHealthCFL Orlando next week and what better time than right after being recognized with the GI Oncology Distinguished Mentor Award at @DDWMeeting#DDW2026! 🎉 Well deserved!
Dr. Burke will be presenting Bridging the Gap in Hereditary GI Cancer: Approach to Diagnosis and Management at our GI & Hepatology Grand Rounds on Friday, May 15 | 12–1 PM | Werner Auditorium.
So proud to be hosting one of the best in our field. ✨
#AdventGI #GIOncology #HereditaryGICancer #GIFellowship #VisitingProfessorship
Watch. This. Space. #AdventGI
@MN_GIMD I completely agree. Social media is a powerful tool that can increase visibility for both programs and trainees alike. In the right hands, it can be a great resource for learning. Education need not need to be constrained to journals and conferences.
Saturday night at @DDWMeeting our group went to dinner.
More and more people kept walking into the room, faculty, fellows, residents, mentors, collaborators, friends. And at one point I looked around and had one of those quiet full circle moments.
Not because success suddenly appeared overnight. Many people in this group have been putting in the work for years. Building programs. Publishing. Teaching. Leading. Showing up again and again.
But this year, seeing everyone together, you could feel the momentum.
And no better ending to @DDWMeeting than @MahamHayatMD
bringing home the @ASGEendoscopy World Cup.
An absolutely incredible accomplishment and the perfect representation of talent, work ethic, and excellence. She quietly continues to raise the bar for herself and everyone around her.
Onward & Upward @AdventHealthCFL #GI #DDW202
#HitPlay ⬇️
But what do we actually do about it?
Some of the most practical takeaways I heard in @KanwalFasiha talk:
🔹 Define your niche- deliberately
Your niche is not just your research topic.
If people hear your name, what do they associate you with?
🔹 Find a sponsor, not just a mentor
Mentors guide you. They’re the ocean - broad, steady, essential.
Sponsors move you. Your sponsor is your whale (see pic, it’ll make sense)
🔹 Be strategic with your yes and your no. Not every opportunity is an opportunity.
3 actions:
• Define your niche in one sentence
• Identify one potential sponsor this month
• Audit your commitments and start saying no with intention
Careers don’t just evolve. They’re designed.
And if we want different outcomes, we have to be intentional about how we build them. @DDWMeeting #DDW2026